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Dustin Mitchell
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From: Mondovi, WI, USA
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 05-01-2009 04:21 AM
Has the media blown this out of proportion? Oh yeah. Has the government over-reacted to this problem? Perhaps a tad, but I'd rather err ont he side of caution. Few things to consider:
-I believe the virus has an incubation period of a week and a half. If that is true then we haven't seen the 'worst' yet.
-When this first started to a be a big deal governments and health agencies didn't have a crystal ball to see what would happen in a week. You only have past experience to go off of.
Perhaps over cited, but the Spanish Flue of 1918 should not be forgotten:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu
quote:
The 1918 flu pandemic (commonly referred to as the Spanish flu) was an influenza pandemic that spread to nearly every part of the world. It was caused by an unusually virulent and deadly Influenza A virus strain of subtype H1N1. Historical and epidemiological data are inadequate to identify the geographic origin of the virus.[1] Most of its victims were healthy young adults, in contrast to most influenza outbreaks which predominantly affect juvenile, elderly, or otherwise weakened patients. The pandemic lasted from March 1918 to June 1920,[2] spreading even to the Arctic and remote Pacific islands. It is estimated that anywhere from 20 to 100 million people were killed worldwide,[3] or the approximate equivalent of one third of the population of Europe,[4][5][6] more than double the number killed in World War I.[7] This extraordinary toll resulted from the extremely high illness rate of up to 50% and the extreme severity of the symptoms, suspected to be caused by cytokine storms. The pandemic is estimated to have affected up to one billion people: more than half the world's population at the time.
And that was before trans-ocean air travel.
quote: James Westbrook
What can a doctor really do? It's a viral infection. Chicken Soup and bed rest.
If treated in the first 48 hours of infection anti-virals are very effective, after the first 48 hours of infection they wont' work.
But yeah, I'm not about to start walking around wearing a mask.
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Mike Blakesley
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From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 05-01-2009 10:27 AM
The media has latched on to this because the real news right now is boring. Chrysler getting another bailout? (YAWN) Obama's dog is old news. The Mideast is in turmoil - so what, it has been in turmoil for centuries, bring on something more interesting.
We've got no tornadoes, hurricanes or wildfires, the flood in Dakota is over, the whole idea of a black president is old hat, the first 100 days is history (as is the analysis of same), stock market is sitting still in the toilet with the "recovery" is stalled at the gate, Britney Spears has been making hits again (who cares about that? We want to see her crash and burn some more!) And so on and so on. Meanwhile the public health officials get to be on TV and the people making the face masks get to make some money...hey, it's good for the economy!
The pandemic will end when somebody tries to assassinate somebody or drops a bomb somewhere. Sad but true. Meanwhile, please buy face masks made in the U.S.A.!
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Just messin. Yeah, I'm less concerned over thw swine flu than the normal flu. Lets face it, any variety of the flu's a bitch, but unless you're elderly, an infant, or otherwise sickly (HIV or what have you) chances of dieing from it are rather slim. Kinda like getting struck by lightning 2x in the same spot while winning the lottery and watching hailey's comet. Yeah, I could have strung that along more, but I figured that was redicuous enough. I got something for the piggy flu ![[fu]](graemlins/fu.gif)
. Hogwash.
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vendors.
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